Production - Laughing Beasts & Roman Sikora: Like the Lions

Optimistic epic about success.

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Chemnitz, Garagen-Campus

The hero of this dark comedy is Mr M., a sly banker who unscrupulously foists bad loans on his customers. When he loses his property due to an accident and subsequent treatment, he ends up homeless on the street. But even here he continues to apply the market principles of free competition and founds a university where he teaches team building and coaching to other homeless people. In this satire, director Michal Hába shows how the principles of capitalism dehumanise our society.

Original Czech play by contemporary playwright Roman Sikora, performed by the award-winning Prague theatre group Laughing Beasts

Text: Roman Sikora
Director: Michal Hába
Set and costume design: Adriana Černá
Dramaturgy: Veronika Linka
Music: Jindřich Čížek
Assistant director: Veronika Macková

The actors play: Kryštof Bartoš, Mark Kristian Hochman, Ondřej Jiráček, Jindřich Čížek

In Czech with German surtitles.

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Chemnitz Utopia

European Capital of Culture The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media Free State of Saxony European Capital of Culture

This project is cofinanced by tax funds on the basis of the parliamentary budget of the state of Saxony and by federal funds from the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media), as well as funds from the City of Chemnitz.